Glass-mount for lamp-shades and kindred articles.



R. F. GROOKE. GLASS MOUNT FOB LAMP SHADES AND KINDBED ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED Jun a, 1900.

901,690. Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

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R. F. OROOKE.

GLASSMOUNT FOR LAMP SHADES AND KINDBED ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1908.

Patented Oct. 20,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN F. CROOKE, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BRADLEY & HUBBARD MFG.

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GLASS-MOUNT FOR LAMP-SHADES AND KINDRED ARTICLES.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, REUBEN F. CnooKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glass-Mounts for Lamp- Shades and Kindred Articles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii- Figure 1 a view in elevation of a lampshade constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a view thereof in vertical section. Fig. 3 a view thereof on the line ct-b of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 a view thereof on the line cd of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 a detached view of one of the glass-retaining finger plates. Fig. 6 an enlar ed broken view in horizontal section througl i one of the corners of the shade.

My invention relates to an improvement in lass-mounts of the type shown and de scri ed in United States Patent No. 796,193

' granted August 1, 1905, on my application,

the object being to simplify the manufacture of lamp-shades, screens and kindred articles, and to enable effects to be secured not before attainable even at great cost in the art to which the invention relates.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a glass-mount having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

For the illustration of my invention I have shown it as embodied in a rectangular lampshade having the general form of a truncated pyramid and built up with four skeleton-like cast-metal glass mounts. As these four mounts are alike in construction, a description of one will sufiice for all. Each has a horizontal top bar 2, inclined side bars 3, and a bottom bar 4, these bars forming framing members, as it were, for framing in the design contained within and supported by them by being cast integral with them.

As shown the main features or members of the design consist of a bridge 5, trees 6, 7 and 8, two flights of steps 9 and 10 leading to the ends of the bridge, and a distant landscape 1 1 separating an expanse of water 12 from the sky 13 which is seen beyond the hilltops formed by the irregular upper line of t e Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 8, 1908. Serial No. 437,329.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908'.

landscape band 11 the lower line of which is straight and sharp to establish a level for the water 12 spanned by the bridge 5.

The different elements or features of the design are modeled some in high relief, some in medium relief and some in low relief, according to the requirements of the picture, some of the surfaces being rounded and some being in flat planes inclined one way or the other according to the shadows required. The back of the entire mount is, however, a perfectly flat plane, the design-members of the mount being in the plane of the bars 2, 3 and 4. The mount is therefore adapted to have transversely arranged sheets of glass 14 and 15 placed directly against its back and chosen with reference to the character of the design. In the design chosen for illustration, the sheet 14 will represent the clouds in the design and the sheet 15 the water in the design, the sky and water being so arated from each other in the picture by t e horizontal landscape band 1 1. It will be readily apparent that such a construction enables effects to be secured far beyond the reach of leading in which, as is well known, the glass is located in the same plane as the lead, the lines of which determine the design. But Withthe lead so to speak, located entirely in front of the glass, the design is in no wise hampered. Moreover the design may be enriched beyond the reach of leading because the metal being detached from the glass may be modeled as it cannot be in leading pure and simple.

Under my improved construction also the metal provides for the transition from glass of one color to another as a narrow line of lead cannot. Thus the relatively wide landscape band 11 in the design chosen for illustration provides for the transition from the color of water to the color of sky and clouds. The sheets of glass 14 and 15 extend from edge to edge of the glass-mount and may be secured in place in a variety of Ways.

As herein shown the lower edge of the sheet 15 is set into a sheet metal step 16 extending along the back of the bar 4, while the upper edge of the sheet 14 is set into a sheet metal step 17 a plied to the back of the horizontal bar 2. The ends of the glass are held in place by flexible retaining fingers made of sheet metal.

As shown in Fig. 3 the mount 18 is soldered at its ends to corresponding mounts 19 and 20. In the corners thus produced I secure sheet-metal plates 21 having fingers 22 and 23 which extend inward between the edges of the glass sheets 24 and 25 and are bent down upon them in opposite directions for securing them in place.

I claim A glass-mount for lamp shades and kindred articles, cast in one piece and having 10 frame-members forming the outline of the mount and inclosing and supporting the parts of the design which subdivide the space inclosed by the frame-members into spaces of various forms, the exterior surface of the parts forming the design being modeled in 

